Anticipating Emerging Infectious Disease Epidemics Meeting
1-2 December 2015, Geneva, Switzerland Conference Room V at International Labour Organization (ILO)
List of Participants
Professor Frank Møller Aarestrup Head of Research Group - National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark
Dr James Ajioka Senior Lecturer, Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Dr Hamoud S. Al Garni Director of Health Authority at Point of Entry, Ministry of Health of Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr Tammam Aloudat Deputy Medical Director, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Ray Arthur Director, Global Disease Detection Operations Center Division of Global Health Protection, Center Global Health, Atlanta, USA
Dr Rana Jawad Asghar Resident Advisor, Field Epidemiology & Laboratory Training Program, National Institute of Health, Islamabad, Pakistan
Dr Juliet Bedford Director and Founder, Anthrologica, York, UK
Ms Barbara Bentein Head - Principal Advisor Ebola Crisis Cell, UNICEF HQ, New York, USA
Dr Ariel Beresniak Chief Executive Officer, Data Mining International SA, Geneva, Switzerland
Mr David Bestwick Technical Director, Avanti Communication Group plc, London, UK
Dr Peter Black Deputy Regional Manager, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
Professor Mathilde Bourrier Professeure Ordinaire, Départment de Sociologie, Université de Genéve, Geneva, Switzerland
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Dr Philippe Calain Médecin, Chargé de recherche, Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Dennis Carroll Director Pandemic Influenza and other Emerging Threats Unit, United States Agency for International Development, Washington DC, USA
Mr Sean Casey Emergency Response Team Leader, International Medical Corps, Los Angeles, USA
Dr Marty Cetron Director Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Dr Andrew Clements Senior Scientific Adviser, Global Health Security and Development Unit Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development, Washington DC, USA
Professor Maire Connolly Professor, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland
Dr Denis Coulombier Head of Unit, Surveillance and Response Support, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Solna, Sweden
Mr Thomas Czernichow Head of the Software and Services Department, EpiConcept, Paris, France
Dr Inger Damon Director, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Professor Xavier De Lamballerie Director of the Research Unit (EPV), IRD Marseille, Marseille, France
Ms Emma Diggle Epidemics and Vaccination Adviser, Save the Children, London, UK
Professor Dialo Diop Lecturer in in Virology in Africa, Dakar, Senegal
Professor Christl Donnelly Professor of Statistical Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK
Dr Henry Dowlen Senior Manager, Health, Government and Public Sector (GPS), Ernst & Young LLP, London, UK
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Dr Monique Eloit Deputy Director, World Organization for Animal Health, Paris, France
Dr Delia Enria Director, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Virales Humanas, Pergamino, Argentina
Dr Abdul Ghafur Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Apollo Hospital, Chennai, India
Dr Dirk Glaesser Director for the Sustainable Development Programme, World Tourism Organization, Madrid, Spain
Professor Herman Goossens Head, Department for Microbiology, University Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium
Professor Stephan Günther Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany
Dr Jessica Halverson Manager, HIV/AIDS and TB Section, Surveillance and Epidemiology Division, Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Dr Nur A. Hasan Adjunct Faculty, University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, College Park, USA
Professor David Heymann Head and Senior Fellow, Centre on Global Health Security - The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, London, UK
Dr Didier Houssin President, Agence d'Evaluation de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement Supérieur, Paris, France
Dr T Jacob John Chairman, Child Health Foundation, Christian Medical College, Vellore, India
Senator Fabienne Keller Senator, Sénat, Paris, France
Dr Ali S Khan Dean College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Centre, Nebraska Omaha, USA
Dr Kamran Khan Research Scientist, Centre for Research on Inner City Health St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Dr Nadia Khelef International Affairs Senior Advisor, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Professor Ilona Kickbusch Director of the Global Health Programme and Adjunct Professor, Interdisciplinary Programmes, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
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Dr Ann Marie Kimball Strategic Advisor, Rockefeller Foundation, New York, USA
Dr Gary P Kobinger Head of Special Pathogens, Head, Vector Design and Immunotherapy, Special Pathogens Program, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, Manitoba, Canada
Professor Marion Koopmans Professor of Public Health Virology, ErasmusMC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Professor Gerard Krause Head of Department Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Braunschweig, Germany
Ms Rhonda Kropp Director General, Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Dr Melissa Leach Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Dr James Le Duc Director, Galveston National Laboratory, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA
Professor Vernon Lee Deputy Director, Communicable Diseases Ministry of Health, Singapore and Head, Singapore Armed Forces Biodefence Centre, Singapore
Ms Hélène Lepetit Managing Partner, Co-founder, IDM - Institut des Mamans, Paris, France
Professor Gabriel Leung Dean - Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Dr Woraya Luang-on Director, Bureau of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Ministry of Public Health, Nonthaburi, Thailand
Dr Hayley MacGregor Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies - University of Sussex, Brighton, UK
Ms Debora MacKenzie Health and Global Security Issues Reporter, New Scientist, London, UK
Professor John Mackenzie Research Associate and Professor of Tropical Infectious Disease, Curtin University, Bentley, Perth, Australia
Dr Lawrence C. Madoff Editor, ProMED-mail, Brookline, USA
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Ms Joanne Manrique President and Editor in Chief, Centre for Global Health and Diplomacy, Washington DC, USA
Dr Jean-Claude Manuguerra Research Director, Head of laboratory for Urgent Response to Biological Threats. Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Ms Margaux Mathis Consultant, Paris, France
Dr Amanda McClelland Senior Officer, Emergency Health, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Brian McCloskey Director of Global Health, Public Health England Wellington House, London, UK
Dr James Meegan Director, Office of Global Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, United States Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health, Betsheda, USA
Dr Shoji Miyagawa Director, Infectious Diseases Information Surveillance Office, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan
Dr Anne-Marie Moulin Research Director Emeritus, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France
Dr David Murdoch Head of Department, Department of Pathology, Christchurch, New Zealand
Dr Vickneshwaran Muthu Senior Principal Assistant Director, Ministry of Health of Malaysia, Disease Control Division, Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya, Malaysia
Dr David Nabarro United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy on Ebola, United Nations Headquarter New York, New York, USA
Dr Josh Nesbit Chief Executive Officer, Medic Mobile, San Francisco, USA
Dr Carl Newman Deputy Chief Scientist, Cooperative Biological Engagement Program, Cooperative Threat Reduction, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Fort Belvoir, USA
Dr Patrick L Osewe Lead Health Specialist, World Bank, Pretoria, South Africa
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Dr Heather Papowitz Senior Advisor, Health-Emergencies, UNICEF HQ, New York, USA
Dr Malik Peiris Director, Division of Public Health Laboratory Sciences, University of Hong Kong School of Public Health, Hong Kong, China
Prof Jorge Pérez Avila Director General, Instituto de Medicina Tropical "Pedro Kouri", La Habana, Cuba
Dr Mark Perkins Chief Scientific Officer, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Julio Pinto Animal Health Officer, FAO HQ, Rome, Italy
Dr Paolo Ruti Chief, World Weather Research Division, World Meteorological Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
Dr Ronald K Saint John Consultant, St John Public Health Consulting International Inc, Manotick, Canada
Dr Gérard Salem Directeur du Laboratoire Espace, Santé et Territoires, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense, Nanterre, France
Dr Amadou Alpha Sall Scientific Director, Institut Pasteur de Dakar, Dakar, Senegal
Dr Mark Salter Consultant in Global Health, Public Health England Wellington House, London, UK
Dr Lars Schaade Vice President, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany
Ms Laura Scheske WHO/WMO Joint Office
Dr Jan Slingenbergh Senior Animal Health Officer/Head of EMPRES, FAO HQ, Rome, Italy
Dr Franck Smith Campaign Director "No More Epidemics", Management Sciences for Health, Medford, USA
Dr Idrissa Sow Expert on Infectious Disease Epidemics, Mauritanie
Professor Oyewale Tomori Professor of Virology, Redeemer's University, Nigeria
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Dr Shinya Tsuzuki Medical Officer, Tuberculosis and Infectious Diseases Control Division, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Tokyo, Japan
Dr Fabio Turone Presedent, Science Writers in Italy, World Federation of Science Journalists, Milan, Italy
Mr Richard Vaux Project Manager for the GloPID-R Project, Fondation Mérieux, Lyon, France
Dr Niteen Wairagkar Lead, Influenza/RSV Initiative, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA
Professor Ronald Waldman Professor, Public Health Department, George Washington University, Washington, USA
Dr John Watson Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health Richmond House, London, UK
Dr Cécile Wendling Associate Researcher, Sociology Organization Centre, Paris, France
Dr Teresa Zakaria Head of the Health Assistance for Crisis Affected Populations Unit, International Organization for Migration, Geneva, Switzerland
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World Health Organization
WHO Regional Offices
Dr Caroline Sarah Brown Programme Manager, EU/IRP Influenza and other Respiratory Pathogens, DCE/VPR/IRP, Copenhagen, Denmark
WHO headquarter
Dr R. Bruce Aylward Executive Director a.i. Outbreaks and Health Emergencies and Special Representative of the Director-General for the Ebola Response, HQ/OHE
Dr Marie-Paule Kieny Assistant Director-General, Health Systems and Innovation, HQ/HIS/HIA
Dr Sylvie Briand Director Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases Department of Outbreaks and Health Emergencies HQ/OHE/PED
Dr William Augusto Perea Caro Coordinator, Control of Epidemic Diseases, HQ/CED
Dr Angelika Maria Tritscher Coordinator, Risk Assessment and Management, HQ/OHE/FOS/RAM
Dr Sarah B. England Senior Adviser, Office of the Director-General, HQ/ODG
Dr Cathy Ellen Roth Technical Adviser, Health Systems and Innovation, HQ/HIA ADGO
Dr Eric Bertherat Medical Officer, Control of Epidemic Diseases, HQ/OHE/PED/CED
Dr Gaya Manori Gamhewage Medical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, HQ/OHE/PED
Dr Dominique Legros Medical Officer, Control of Epidemic Diseases, HQ/OHE/PED
Dr Wenqing Zhang Scientist, Influenza, Hepatitis and PIP Framework, OHE/PED/HIP
Dr Weigong Zhou Medical Officer, Influenza, Hepatitis and PIP Framework, OHE/HIP
Dr Katelijn A.H. Vandemaele Medical Officer, Influenza, Hepatitis and PIP Framework, OHE/HIP
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Dr Asheena Khalakdina Technical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, HQ/OHE/PED
Dr Kathleen Louise Strong Technical Officer, Influenza, Hepatitis and PIP Framewok, OHE/HIP
Ms Erika Garcia Technical Officer, Control of Epidemic Diseases, HQ/OHE/PED/CED
Ms Sandra Garnier Technical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, HQ/OHE/PED
Ms Anais Legand Technical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, HQ/OHE/PED
Mr Carmen Savelli Technical Officer, Risk Assessment and Management, HQ/RAM
Mr Oliver Gerd Stucke Technical Officer, Communication Capacity Building, HQ/OHE/PED
Ms Kara Durski Epidemiologist, Ebola Virus Outbreak Response, HQ/OHE/PED
Dr Elizabeth Mumford Scientist, Food Safety, Zoonoses and Foodborne Diseases, HQ/FOS
Dr Martin Howell Friede Scientist, Public Health, Innovation and Intellectual Property, HQ/PHI
Mrs Qiu Yi Khut Information Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Disease, HQ/OHE/PED
Ms Mara Frigo Technical Officer, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, HQ/OHE/PED
Mrs Kaveri Khasnabis Secretary, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases , HQ/OHE/PED
Mr Leender Van Gurp Manager, Business Intelligence Competency Centre, HQ/CMS
Ms Geraldine Hagon Intern, Communication Capacity Building, HQ/CCB
Consultant
Mrs Nyka Alexander Consultant, Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases, HQ/OHE/PED
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Miss Gina Samaan Consultant, Influenza, Hepatitis and PIP Framework, HQ/HIP
Dr Anthony Paul Stewart Consultant, Global Prepardness, Surveillance and Response, HQ/PSR
Ms Ursula Zhao Yu Consultant, HQ/DGO/DGD/DCO/CCB
Dr Theodor Ziegler Consultant, Influenza, Hepatitis and PIP Framework, HQ/HIP
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